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summary and future Directions
In conclusion, CIs are highly effective auditory prostheses that mimic how the inner ear encodes sound, but they are severely limited in their ability to transmit information. There are the major obstacles that CI researchers are trying to tackle, with areas of successes and areas where the field could improve. The CI has motivated exciting new research questions and has uncovered some new mysteries about the au- ditory system. The field continues to “push the envelope” to bet- ter understand how hearing works and how we can help those that lose or never had their hearing to regain or provide it.
biosketch
Matthew Goupell is an assistant pro- fessor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Univer- sity of Maryland. He received a BS in physics and mathematics at Hope College in Holland, MI (2001) and a PhD in physics at Michigan State Uni- versity (2005). He spent three years as a post-doc at the Austrian Academy of
Sciences in Vienna, Austria and two years as a post-doc at the University of Wisconsin – Madison researching auditory perception in bilateral cochlear-implant users. His research focuses on binaural hearing, aging, and cochlear implants.
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